Our leadership development podcast series offers support and encouragement for existing, new and aspiring leaders in voluntary, community or social enterprises across North Yorkshire. ‘Ordinary Extraordinary Leaders’ offers leaders an easily accessible and flexible development opportunity – with something for everyone, no matter where they are in their career.
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The Northern Agenda is a weekly podcast covering politics and public affairs from across the North of England, voiced by journalists who are outside the Westminster bubble, reporting from the other side of the North/South divide. From Blackpool to Barnsley and Bamburgh and everywhere in between, exploring subjects such as levelling up to buses, elections to the latest council scraps, The Northern Agenda brings you discussion and analysis of the North's big political stories, from people expe ...
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From community to county level, a story of how grassroots Asian cricket went professional. Yorkshire based journalist and cricket fan Nasser Hanif explores recordings he made for the archive project “From Parks to Pavilions” which documented how Asian community cricket developed from its roots on the backstreets through to the formation of the first leagues and up to county level and beyond. It’s a story that reflects society at the time, looks into immigration and cultural differences and a ...
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👶 Women failed from the day they're born | Joe Morris: the Labour MP in a seat that voted Tory for a century
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There's a definite 'back to school' feeling in the air in politics this week. The news agenda is already being dominated by the issues that we're going to be hearing about again and again in the coming months - small boats, the housing crisis and the ravaged state of the public finances. It's back to school for the North's politicians too, and with…
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Thinking outside of the box: how embracing neurodiversity can harness creativity in the North
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The Northern Agenda tries to think outside of the box when it comes to both our newsletter and podcast, and in this week’s episode, our guest does exactly that. Tina Catling is a renowned innovation consultant, author, and speaker, who advises organisations and people around the world on how to unlock creative potential and innovation. She has been…
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The Northern Agenda on the road: Clitheroe in the Ribble Valley
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We all know there's a big North-South divide when it comes to pay, but which part of the North of England has the highest average wage? Here's a clue, it's not Manchester or Leeds. With an average median annual full-time wage of nearly £42,000, Ribble Valley in Lancashire is the highest-paid local authority area in Northern England. Its residents e…
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York and North Yorkshire mayor David Skaith on his "whirlwind" first 100 days | How visits to Bolton's pubs is shaping research
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Politicians and pubs are a combination as old as the hills, with even the likes of teetotal ex-Prime Minister Rishi Sunak turning up for photo shoots at local watering holes on the election trail this year. But if our decision-makers stuck about after the cameras disappeared and observed the conversations ordinary pub-goers were having, would th…
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What the future holds for our town halls after a turbulent and challenging last decade
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So if you look at the biggest jobs in local government in the North of England, undoubtedly near the top of the list are the chief executives of the city councils of Manchester and Leeds. They're roles that come with responsibility for vital services in our region's two biggest cities, leading thousands of employees and overseeing annual budgets in…
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Is TransPennine Express on the right track for recovery?
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Just over a year ago, TransPennine Express, which runs intercity services across the North of England, became the latest to come under government control due to its dire performance that had infuriated political leaders and customers. Installed not long after as managing director was Chris Jackson, faced with some formidable hurdles to overcome if …
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Matt Vickers: the last remaining Tory MP in the North East | The fascinating hidden stories of Manchester you won't have learned about at school
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On a brutal General Election night for the Conservatives, there were a few bright spots where their MPs managed to defy the swing to Labour and hang onto their seats. In the North East of England - where Labour otherwise swept the board - just one Conservative MP now remains, Matt Vickers, who won in the new seat of Stockton West despite pre-electi…
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📈 Alarming Vital Signs in the North East
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Doesn't it seem a long time ago that a victorious Boris Johnson took in the applause from Conservatives in Tony Blair's old seat of Sedgefield after winning a host of North East seats in Labour strongholds like Darlington, Redcar and Bishop Auckland in the 2019 General Election? Five years later, the Tories have been all but wiped out in the North …
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From Wearside to Westminster: what's it like to be a new MP?
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This week's there's an induction like no other going on in Westminster's corridors of power, as dozens of newly-elected MPs from across the North are introduced to the bewildering intricacies and traditions of life in the epicentre of British democracy. But what's it been like for someone who a week ago was battling to be elected and now finds them…
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Change management by changing management
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Liz Lockey, Chief Offer of Hambleton Community Action, discusses how leadership is about creating the conditions for change and encouraging behaviours that support change, while knowing when to consilidate and stabilise.Oleh Community First Yorkshire
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Rishi, Binface and me: election night in North Yorkshire
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It's General Election night and Rob Parsons has got himself a front row seat for one of the highest-profile counts in the North: Rishi Sunak's Richmond and Northallerton constituency in North Yorkshire. With Sunak's Conservatives facing near certain defeat to Labour in the polls, the media is waiting for the Prime Minister to show his face in the e…
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Why voters in the North are so disillusioned by the General Election
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This week voters across the North will be going to the polls for the General Election with all the national polling pointing to a big Labour victory. But Rob Parsons wants to hear what's happening at local level across the North of England and has reassembled a panel of top political journalists, Liam Thorp from the Liverpool Echo, Joseph Timan fro…
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Northern election rivals taken to task
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In the run-up to the General Election, we've heard so much from the likes of Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak, Nigel Farage and Ed Davey - wouldn't it be interesting to put the local candidates bidding for voters in the North in the spotlight for a change? This week on the Northern Agenda podcast, election rivals in the North East are taken to task ove…
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Will Orgreave miners get the truth after 40 years? | A postcard from Southport
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We're 40 years on from the so-called Battle of Orgreave, when thousands of picketing miners were attacked by riot police in South Yorkshire in what has been described as one of the most violent clashes in British industrial history, with police using ‘paramilitary’ tactics. And to mark the occasion a new report, chronicling what campaigners say is …
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The hidden poverty in Rishi Sunak's leafy Yorkshire patch
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We're three weeks into the General Election campaign and Rishi Sunak and the Conservatives are staring down the barrel of an historic defeat that will see them reduced to just a handful of seats in the North of England and potentially scrapping with the Lib Dems and Reform UK to be the opposition to the next Labour government. It's been a torrid …
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General Election 2024: A view from the North
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For the next few weeks there's really only one story in town politics-wise and that's the 2024 General Election - the one that seems to have been on the horizon for months but in the end came quite unexpectedly with an announcement by Rishi Sunak in a rain-drenched Downing Street. Since then it's been a non-stop flurry of campaign stops, photo oppo…
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Shahida Iqbal, Director of Manar Associations, shares how her experience as a trustee has helped her on her leadership journey - not just in terms of building relationships, her critical thinking and listening skills, and career progression. She challenges us to think about why people should become trustees and explores how such a vital role can he…
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Levelling Up: How is it going so far?
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Ahead of the General Election on July 4th, we’re taking a look at one of the key policies from the 2019 Conservative manifesto. Levelling up promised to boost Britain’s “left behind” areas, and helped Boris Johnson storm to victory as voters in former Labour heartlands turned to the Tories in droves. You can find out more by listening to our episod…
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🏙️ 🐝 The city that shaped the modern world
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This week Rob Parsons joins 13,000 (mostly blue suit-wearing) delegates from the business and political worlds at a major property conference in Leeds - the UK's Real Estate Investment and Infrastructure Forum. The likes of Angela Rayner and Alastair Campbell were among the speakers at the three-day event at Leeds' Royal Armouries - which saw hect…
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📱Smart phones 'destroying our children' | Where's Newcastle's Saudi jobs boom?
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Most of us spend our days with a mobile phone practically glued to our hand - in fact you may well be listening to this podcast on it right now. And it's becoming more and more common for children to have a smart phone, some even before they start at secondary school. But there are more and more people who are terrified at what the ubiquity of smar…
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Having a mayor - what now for the North's new political superheroes?
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We're a week on from the local and mayoral elections and the dust is still settling on a set of results which dealt another major blow to Rishi Sunak and the Conservatives. And it was the election of metro mayors - the political figureheads for big regions like the North East, Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire - which made most of the headlines…
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Sunak's silver lining: Live from Tees Valley as Tories hammered in local elections
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Rob Parsons reports from a sports hall in the town of Thornaby-on-Tees - where he's witnessed perhaps the only bright spot for Rishi Sunak in what was a miserable local and mayoral election night for his Conservative Party. The Tories look to be on course to lose 500 local election seats in what could be their worst showing in 40 years. They…
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Local elections 2024: the ones to watch | How can North’s ex-mining towns catch up?
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This week Rob Parsons focuses on the parts of the country where millions of us live - the so-called coalfield or ex-mining communities - and find out what the future holds for them. There's a new report out this week from the Coalfields Regeneration Trust setting out how the areas whose miners used to power industrial Britain are still lagging behi…
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Which political story should we be paying more attention to: Angela Rayner or Mark Menzies?
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Which political story should we be paying more attention to: the saga of Angela Rayner's council house in Stockport or that of Lancashire MP Mark Menzies, who is accused of using political donations to cover medical expenses and pay off “bad people” who had locked him in a flat and demanded thousands of pounds for his release? This week Rob Parsons…
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Alex Niven on why he believes the North will rise again | How much do we know about Labour's policies for the North?
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This week, Rob Parsons speaks to an author who's asked the question: How did the North become a place of lost potential and broken dreams? And what can be done to make it one of the most dynamic and forward-looking places in the world once again? Alex Niven is the man behind the book The North Will Rise Again, which covers the colourful adventure…
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Mike Hickman, Leadership Training and Development Manager at Community First Yorkshire, invites you to meet Peter (or Petra) Principle. What happens when someone is promoted to the point of incompetence? Mike explains why this isn't necessarily a bad thing with the right support to help leaders to grow. He explains that, if you are conscious of wha…
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EXCLUSIVE: The Northern Agenda hosts the hustings for the new elected mayor of the North East
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This week the Northern Agenda podcast comes from the headquarters of the North East's Chronicle and Journal newspapers in the centre of Newcastle for a special mayoral hustings edition. In a month's time one of the five people speaking to Rob Parsons over the conference room table will be the new elected mayor of the North East. They'll have powers…
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The Northern Agenda's Road to the Election: Blackpool South
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In the next few months as the impending General Election dominates our politics, The Northern Agenda podcast is going on the road. Across the North of England voters will be going to the polls five years on from the dramatic 2019 election where large swathes of our region broke the habit of decades by switching their allegiance from Labour to the T…
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🎓 Why bright Northern students don't apply to Cambridge
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Why is it that bright young people from the North are so much less likely to apply for our two most prestigious universities, Cambridge and Oxford, than their counterparts in the South East and London? It's a question that gets right to the heart of our North-South divide and this week on the podcast Rob Parsons tries to answer it with the help of …
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Muslims in the North: how a new museum in Leeds wants to "decolonise civic spaces"
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This week Rob Parsons finds out about a new museum display celebrating the trailblazing contributions of Muslims living and working in the North of England. Leeds City Museum’s Voices of Asia Gallery is hosting Muslims in the North, which explores the pioneering work of prominent Muslims in fields including commerce, healthcare, law and research. M…
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Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram: their plan to rewire and reimagine our country beyond the Westminster bubble
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This week Rob Parsons speaks to two political best mates who were born just a few miles away from each other in Liverpool and have gone on to be two of the best-known elected figures in our region. Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester, and Steve Rotheram, mayor of the Liverpool City Region, have teamed up to write a new book where they sha…
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In the fifth in our Ordinary Extraordinary Leaders podcast series, JK McQuinn, from Where the Mind Grows, exhorts us to return to nature supporting us to resource ourselves and grow as leaders. JK calls for us to break our own rules, be a maverick and prioritise our wellbeing. “We can do much more when we’re in a state of calm and replenishment – a…
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Reaction to the Rochdale by-election result | 2080: the year when the life expectancy North-South gap really changes
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This week the focus of Northern politicians is on Leeds, where the Convention of the North will see hundreds of the region's political and business leaders try and work out how to make our region a powerhouse again. Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove and Labour's Deputy Leader Angela Rayner will be making their pitch about what their parties can d…
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Reform UK: raging against the machine, or the UK's new third party?
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This week the Northern Agenda switches focus away from the two main political parties to one that seems to be gathering momentum and hopes to do some real damage to the Conservatives at the next General Election. Reform UK, founded by Nigel Farage as the Brexit Party back in 2018 and renamed in 2020 to campaign against lockdown measures during the …
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Will George Galloway be Rochdale's next MP? | Dragging North's market towns into 2024
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In big cities like Manchester, Newcastle, Liverpool, and Leeds the last few years have seen huge amounts of regeneration, transforming them beyond recognition. But what about our region's larger satellite towns and smaller cities, many with a proud tradition and history that stretches back to before the Industrial Revolution? With town centres that…
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How to make politics funny: With Matt Chorley and Graeme Bandeira
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Have you ever wondered how award-winning cartoonist Graeme Bandeira comes up with his ideas for this weekly dose of satire in the Northern Agenda newsletter? There have been some crackers in the last year - Environment Secretary Therese Coffey dancing down Redcar beach surrounded by dead crabs, Nadine Dorries throwing her toys out of the pram after…
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In the fourth podcast in our 'Ordinary Extraordinary Leaders' podcast series, listen to Jill Quinn, CEO of Dementia Forward. She takes us on a leadership journey from a playground in Cornwall to her happy ever after at North Yorkshire's Dementia Forward. Share her love of leadership and aspirations for the future of VCSE leaders.…
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No corruption but plenty of secrecy: What next for Teesworks?
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For anyone interested in the politics of our region there's really only one story in town this week, that's the long-awaited - and long-delayed - report into the murky goings-on at Teesworks, the flagship regeneration project in the North East. The headline news - at least if you're a Conservative supporter of the scheme - is that it cleared those …
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Why is there a bias against Northern voices - and can we combat it?
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Is it harder for Northerners to have their voices heard in literature and comedy because of age-old regional biases? That's the question on The Northern Agenda podcast this week with two guests who've explored that thorny topic with academic rigour. Jen Bowden, a journalist and writer from a small pit village called Wingate in County Durham, hosts …
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A North East mayor: Why should we care?
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This week Rob Parsons gets listeners up to speed on what could be the most consequential and interesting election in the first half of this year - unless of course Rishi Sunak is forced to call an early General Election in the next few weeks. On May 2 the North East will go to the polls to choose the region's first ever metro mayor, with a host of …
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Keir Starmer up North | Hear Labour leader as he's quizzed by students on Greater Manchester visit
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This week Northern Agenda Editor Rob Parsons crosses over the Pennines to witness a big day for the Manchester Evening News - a visit from the man who in the next few months is likely to become this country's next Prime Minister. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer was out and about in the North West as he leaves Westminster behind and tries to connect …
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Sex, Power and Politics in the VCSE Sector
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In the third of our 'Ordinary Extraordinary Leaders' podcast series, listen to Chris Hailey-Norris, CEO of Up For Yorkshire as he explores people, relationships and how, as a leader, you interact with people based on different perceptions.Oleh Chris Hailey-Norris
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There's more than one big election up North in 2024
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The Northern Agenda podcast is back after a Christmas break for 2024 - and it seems only right to kick off the year with a look ahead to some of the stories we're going to be talking about in Northern politics in the next 12 months. The impending General Election will surely loom large over political debate in our region. But there are a host of fa…
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Is Manchester now the London of the North?
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Listeners may not have heard of the village of Daresbury, near Warrington in Cheshire, which has a population of just a few hundred people, though it does have a major claim to fame though as the birthplace of the author Lewis Carroll. But just a few hundred metres away from the village is a facility that is already putting the name Daresbury on th…
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This Is The North 2023: 'A Radical North – The People Powered Future Starts Here'
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After taking a closer look at what's going on in Sunderland, this week the Northern Agenda podcast heads 130 miles south west over the Northern Pennines to the Lancashire city of Preston. Rob Parsons reports from the This Is The North Convention 2023, organised by the People's Powerhouse, a movement that aims to bring people of the North together t…
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The second in our 'Ordinary Extraordinary Leaders' podcast series, listen to Mike Hickman, Leadership Development & Training Manager at Community First Yorkshire as he explores how the secret to not breaking people is to take care of yourself.Oleh Mike Hickman
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Wear on the up: The transformation of Sunderland
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What comes into your head when you think of the North East port city of Sunderland? Is it the football team, battling to get back into the Premier League. Or maybe it's car production, with a huge Nissan base now being used to build electric vehicles? For most people, what won't come to mind is the smartest city in the UK, powered by the fastest 5G…
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Reaction to Jeremy Hunt's 2023 Autumn Statement | How will investment zones work in West Yorkshire?
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This week all the attention is on Chancellor Jeremy Hunt as he unveiled his Autumn Statement - or at least the bits that hadn't already been briefed out to the media in advance - in an hour-long speech. In the national media all the talk is about tax cuts - how big are they, when do they start, will they be swallowed up by so-called 'fiscal drag' w…
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Dehenna Davison MP on her time as levelling up minister and tougher sentences for people who kill with one punch
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This week on the podcast Rob Parsons speaks to two fascinating but very different guests. Conservative MP Dehenna Davison has packed a huge amount into her short career so far since being elected in Bishop Auckland in County Durham in 2019 while still in her 20s. Until recently a Levelling Up Minister, this summer she stepped back because of her ba…
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The first in our 'Ordinary Extraordinary Leaders' podcast series, listen to Mike Hickman, Leadership Development & Training Manager at Community First Yorkshire as he creates a composite Frankenstein's Monster of bad leadership and shares what good leadership looks like.Oleh Jo
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